I thought we must be the last people on Earth who know what a Vectrex is, much less own one that still works! The irony is that all my friends had Ataris, and I wished I had one because there were more games on the Atari that I liked but I liked the extra buttons on the Vectrex. Ah, childhood...

I spend a lot of time remembering and writing about the video games I played while growing up, mostly because it's the closest I can come to actually playing them, until the magical day arrives when I have an entire room in my house dedicated to housing a classic arcade and console collection. I...